Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 3rd from 15:49 to 20:48:

• In Escape Rooms, Video Games Meet Real Life – NYTimes.com – Everything is interactive these days, thanks to video games and the Internet, even Neil Patrick Harris’s forthcoming autobiography, which is being written in…
• Navigating a Post-Samsung Era – NYTimes.com – Kontra: "Navigating a Post-Samsung Era"

  http://t.co/5FR9O2XwSU

• Just What The Humping Heck Is “Character Agency,” Anyway? – J.C. Hutchins: Are you new to the fiction writing game? Let the mighty @ChuckWendig drop the mothereffing AGENCY BOMB on your mind: http://t.co/tV3YmIxpix
• It Plays Games and Music and Movies and Pretty Soon You Won’t Be Able to Buy It: Sony Says Goodbye to the PSP – It had a long run, but the PSP — the handheld gaming device Sony introduced 10 years ago – is powering down.
  Sony stopped shipping the gadget in North America…
• An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg – Dear Mark:
  You have lost focus. Please get it back.
  As a longtime Facebook user, advertiser and publisher, I think your company is losing the plot, and is in…
• Report Predicts Surge in “Internet of Things” Devices – A new mobility report from Ericsson projects that the number of net-connected devices will increase by three or four times over the next five years.
  There were…
• Developers Applaud Apple’s New Era of Openness – This week’s Apple developers conference did little to appease those waiting for the Cupertino tech giant to make good on one executive’s promise of a product…
• Tech Makes It to TV, Via the Plots Set in the Past – “We’ve now moved to a point in history where we have a large chunk of the audience who has never experienced life without computers, and life without the…
• Peak Advertising and the Future of the Web – Peak Advertising and the Future of the Web | MetaFilter “Advertising is not well. Though companies supported by advertising still dominate the landscape and…
• 2015 Fellowship Application – Screendoor – If you have coding skills and want to use them for good, get on the @CodeforAmerica 2015 fellowship application.
• Patrick Chovanec’s Tweets About Tiananmen Square – Business Insider – What @prchovanec is doing on twitter is absolutely gripping
• hovercraft link between Wirral and North Wales has licence granted – Liverpool Echo – “@LivEchonews: Licence granted for hovercraft link between Wirral and North Wales ” I'm genuinely excited.